Christie, Agatha -- Poirot's Early Cases (1974)

Blurb: Eighteen short stories by Agatha Christie, with one exception never previously published in England in book form, add up to a treasure trove for the Queen of Crime’s millions of admirers all over the world.

All the stories feature Hercule Poirot and the cases which helped to establish the little Belgian detective’s professional reputation in this country when he first came over at the end of the First World War and became involved in the scandalous affair at the Victory Ball.

The majority of the stories are narrated by the friend who in those early days played Watson to Poirot’s Holmes and afford fascinating glimpses of Poirot grappling with English problems even while grappling—sometimes less successfully—with the English language.

Here then are a dozen and a half new stories about one of the best-loved detectives in fiction.  The stories are vintage Christie.  There is no need to say any more.